River15h ago

Toying with the idea of making a second website, and so I'm considering some of my options for hosting it. Github won't let me host another site for free. It looks like Gitlab has a pretty good service? It looks like I can do as many as I like for free, or am I mistaken?

Any other recommendations I should check out? I'm planning on just doing a static site, either WordPress¹ or 11ty. Needs to be free or dirt cheap, and if they're not evil, that's ideal.

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¹ Is WordPress actually good? It seems widely used even by some FOSS and tech people? I've only ever used 11ty, but I'm also trying to consider the viability of something that non-technical folks can interact with too.

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Show threadArianne B

@riverpunk Wordpress has the benefit of having implemented ActivityPub pretty thoroughly. 11ty might have as well - not familiar with that.

Ghost (https://ghost.org/) is another possibility. It has a free tier. The company is privately owned but very strongly community-oriented. Also implemented ActivityPub. Quite similar goals as Medium/Substack, but you can just use it as a public blog. I'm seriously non-techie, very clumsy user of WordPress but found my way around Ghost pretty readily.

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Show threadRiver14h ago

@adb hmm interesting, so WordPress handles both site generation as well as distributing that content (either as web content or apparently via ActivityPub)? Wasn't aware of that.

11ty is just something you run on your laptop that takes in some markdown files and an html template and it makes all of your pages for you. It doesn't handle server stuff, so no ActivityPub integration.

I'm looking at the Ghost site, where be the free tier? Pricing doesn't seem to indicate that. What all is included in the free tier?

Show threadArianne B29m ago
@riverpunk Ah yes hmmm maybe no more free tier at ghost. Sorry to mislead you there.